PocketCook App Store

Cook alongside the chefs you follow.

Save their videos as recipes, then plan, shop and cook with the video beside you.

Get PocketCook on the App Store Free on iPhone and iPad · Android is in testing

The app after Brian Lagerstrom's soup video is pasted: three recipes found, Broccoli Cheddar Soup, Chicken Noodle Soup and French Onion Soup, each with its own ingredients and steps, and a button to save all three.
One soup video, three separate recipes.

From a video

Paste a link. Get the recipe.

While you cook

The right video. At the right step.

Each step takes the video to the moment it happens, not the start of the video. Let it play, and the recipe moves along with it.

Step six of seven for Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled chicken, slice it into strips against the grain and pile it onto a platter, with his video at the moment the sliced chicken is on the board.

While you cook

Stuck at a step? Just ask.

Ask how to tell when it’s done, what to swap or how to fix it, and get a short answer from the recipe you’re cooking.

The questions that fit the step are there to tap, or type your own.

Asking about a step of Joshua Weissman's High-Heat Skillet Steak. How do I get a deeper crust? Don't crowd the steak, and leave it alone until it releases. How golden should it get? A deep golden color, like good toast, not pale. Two more questions wait to be tapped.

Creators

Follow the cooks you cook from.

Everyone you save a recipe from is kept together in your book. Follow them, and their new videos show up there, ready to turn into a recipe with one tap.

Just starting out? Your book suggests a few creators worth cooking from.

The cooks named here and in the app have not endorsed PocketCook and aren’t affiliated with it. We only read what they post publicly, and every recipe credits them and links back to their video.

The recipe book, with new videos from the creators it follows at the top, from Sam the Cooking Guy, Nick's Kitchen and Sally's Baking Addiction, and creators to start with under them, Brian Lagerstrom and Joshua Weissman first.

For dinner

One dinner, several videos.

Put recipes from different cooks together as one dinner. Each dish keeps its own cook’s video, and every step brings up the right one, at the moment it happens.

The dinner's first step, set the oven broiler to high, for America's Test Kitchen's roasted peppers, with their video at that moment. The next step, bag the chicken thighs with the marinade, for Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled chicken, with his video at that moment.

Have a video in mind? That’s all you need to start.

Get PocketCook on the App Store Free on iPhone and iPad · Android is in testing

How it works

Four steps from a recipe to dinner

Your recipe can come from a video link, a recipe page or an assistant’s reply. From there, it’s the same four steps.

  1. The recipe book's add menu: copy instructions for your favorite AI, paste a recipe, link or YouTube video, take a photo of a recipe card, or write one in.Paste a recipePaste the link or the reply, and PocketCook pulls out the ingredients and steps and keeps the video, credited to its creator.
  2. Brian Lagerstrom's Italian pasta salad, Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled Mediterranean chicken and America's Test Kitchen's oven-roasted bell peppers planned as one dinner: 3 hours in all, 40 minutes of it hands on, and a button to cook the whole meal.Build the mealCombine recipes to create a meal. PocketCook works out what happens when, so every dish is ready at the same time.
  3. The shopping list with the product each line buys, Roma tomatoes, yellow onions and Swanson vegetable broth among them, and a button to add 8 items to a Walmart cart.Shop your own shelfNot just “cheddar,” but the sharp cheddar you actually buy. Pick the product once, and every list after that comes with your brands, ready for your store’s cart.
  4. Step three of seven for Sam the Cooking Guy's grilled chicken, flip the thighs and brush them with the reserved marinade, with his video at that moment and the evening's timeline above it.Cook, one line at a timeGet an organized recipe for an entire meal. Each step comes with its ingredients and its timer, and the video follows along.

Before you start

Find out what you need to do before you start cooking.

Nothing kills dinner plans quite like getting halfway through a recipe and finding out something needed to marinate overnight.

PocketCook catches those things before you start. If your dough needs to rest, your butter needs to soften, something needs to thaw, or tomorrow’s dinner actually needs to start tonight, you’ll know when you open the recipe.

Plan the recipe for later in the week, and PocketCook will remind you when it’s time to get started.

No more finding out at step four that you should’ve done something yesterday.

What else it does

The parts a recipe leaves out

What you already have
Tell it which staples you keep on hand, and they stay off your list. You only buy what’s missing.
Send it to anyone
Share any recipe as a link. Whoever opens it can cook from it without installing anything.
One oven, two temperatures
If two dishes need the oven at 400°F and 425°F at the same time, PocketCook tells you before you start.
Was it any good
Right after you cook, PocketCook asks: make it again, make it with a tweak, or never again. If it needs a tweak, you can note what you’d change.
Cooking for six
Change the servings and every amount follows, weights and cups alike. Your shopping list updates too.

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What it costs

Free is a real app, not a trial

Free

No card

  • 30 recipes, then 5 a week
  • Recipes from videos, recipe pages and assistant replies, wherever the recipe is written out
  • Plan the week, shop it, cook it
  • Photographs on your recipes
  • Backed up, and restored on a new phone when you sign in
  • Nothing expires

Get PocketCook on the App Store Free on iPhone and iPad · Android is in testing